[theforum] evolters outline
Martin Burns
martin at easyweb.co.uk
Wed Aug 13 10:58:16 CDT 2003
OK, we've had a bit of a bash around this on #evolt (wanna come join?)
and this is an outline we've come up with.
What it is
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It's a service that hosts applications that provide community-building
tools for evolters. Most of these are actually delivered through
member-only content types. List below...
Members will be able to host their stuff easily and we can build nice
things like community blogs (ie an evolters' travel blog, aggregating
all the travel blog posts of members. Sabrina's just called this
BetterThanBlogs)
What it is not
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Essentially, a meo replacement. It's not experimental space to develop
in. It will provide a rigidly restricted set of tools.
Why would I use it?
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(as opposed to having a site of your own with it on)
Well you might (and might not - not everyone has access to a CMS), but
it's
a) easy to use (it will be!)
b) turnkey
c) community building with other evolters
d) and you're helping evolt.org
What does it cost?
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Given the different things that people can do for us, and the different
value of money around the world, it's going to be mad to charge a flat
fee. Also, some people contribute in time, not money, and that's also
OK. My only concern is that payments by paypal be lumped into something
that's not going to get a large %age skimmed by Paypal. But the
contribution needs to be regular.
Also, there will be some kind of free initial period as it won't work
until we have a critical mass (mmm Metcalfe's law) - choices are:
1) Until X date
2) Until X members
3) A rolling X days after you sign up
Services/Content types List
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1) evolters.org email address - forwarded, not hosted, but with
spam-tagging en-route
2) Blog. Members can also tag entries with keywords (see
BetterThanBlogging below) which can drive sub-blogs
3) Links. Kinda part of the blog thought, but needn't appear on blogs.
4) Photo gallery - upload pics by FTP and it's all done including
thumbnails and next/previous
5) Recipes - resurrecting the old feo idea. Actually, this fits into
BetterThanBlogging
6) Resume/CV
7) Wikis
8) Personal general pages - can be submitted to workflow and become weo
articles
9) Jabber server tied into the global login
10) BetterThanBlogging(tm)
BTB is just an aggregated blog of all the evolter blogs. So you can see
what evolters.org as a community is thinking/writing about. Using the
keywords mentioned above, you can also then do topic-specific blogs,
like the evolter travel blog for next time Isaac & Kate go
world-gallivanting.
Obviously users can choose whether an entry appears or not (sounds like
a workflow state to me), so your post about dildoes doesn't appear in
the travel blog unexpectedly (unless you were travelling *to* a dildo
convention, in which case you'd have both keywords and appear in the
dildo blog too *grin*)
You could also have an RSS feed for external evolter blogs, but I'm
less worried about that.
I think that's where we got to. Any additions/deletions/modifications?
cheers
Martin
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